I Like It Here: Life Stories of Humboldt's Bob McKee
I Like It Here: Life Stories of Humboldt's Bob McKee
Compiled and edited by Ray Raphael. Born in Whitethorn in 1929, Bob was raised in Eureka during the Depression and World War II by his grandmother, who lived on a Civil War widow’s pension. He joined the Navy, then returned to Southern Humboldt in 1957 to raise a family and put his stamp on history. “Godfather” to the back-to-the-land movement, Bob purchased failing ranches and logged-over forests, then settled some 900 families on the parcels he developed. Bob was a master story teller with 92 years of life stories to tell. Collectively, they form both a personal history and a record of particular places in distinct historical times.